Congress. Congress' Budget Process Is Broken. Here's One Idea for Fixing It. Lawmakers should be freed from "the dead hand of some guy from 1974," says former Congressional Budget Office director.

The 1974 Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act put in place a process where each year Congress must appropriate discretionary spending—a category that includes education, defense, and ...

In 1974, Congress passed the Budget Control Act (BCA), which sought to reform and streamline the process for passing the federal budget. Per the BCA, the president submits his budget proposal to ...

This news arrived just one week after the 50th birthday of the law that created the congressional budget process. President Richard M. Nixon hailed the Control Budget and Impoundment Act’s ...

The 1974 Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act put in place a process where each year Congress must appropriate discretionary spending — a category that includes education, defense, and ...

However, former Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), who chaired the House Budget Committee between 2017 and 2023, questioned whether the process laid out by the Congressional Budget Act still makes sense.

The House Modernization of Congress Committee held a hearing on improving the budget and appropriations process in Congress. The panelists shared their views on the current state of the budget ...

This is nothing new: Congress hasn’t completed work on all of its spending bills by the Oct. 1 deadline since 1996, and in some years hasn’t even bothered to adopt a budget blueprint.

In Congress, a unified budget could work within the existing committee structure, and the Budget Committees could still start the process. The key change would be in the Appropriations Committees.

Timetable of the congressional budget process (in law, if not always in practice) First Monday in February: President submits proposed budget. Feb. 15: Congressional Budget Office submits report on ...

Believe it or not, the last time the U.S. Congress passed a budget in full and on time was all the way back in 1997, well before smart phones became ubiquitous and the advent of social media ...

OPINION — With 2011 caps expiring, it’s time to restore Congress’ ability to set discretionary spending amounts in the budget resolution.